Dec. 4, 1889.—Rocina (6 guns), 232 snipe, besides partridge, quail, duck, &c.
Dec. 12, 1889.—Retuerta (2 guns, W. E. Brymer and W. J. B.), 60 snipe, 58 ducks, 11 geese = 129 head.
Woodcock.
Spanish, Chocha—(Andalucia) Gallineta.
Arrives in November, but never in any quantities—ten or twelve couple in a day is an unusual bag, and we have none worth recording.
The latest woodcocks shot in Andalucia are about the middle of March.
Quails.
Spanish, Codorniz.
Though not strictly marsh-birds, yet quails at times abound among the moist rushy prairies, both of Spain and Portugal, and hardly a hillock of drier ground or microscopic patch of maize-stubble but will yield a brace or two.
The largest bag we can find recorded in our game-books is 52 brace in a day; but believe this has been, and certainly easily might be, largely exceeded. At certain passage-periods the Andalucian vegas simply swarm with this dashing little game-bird, and at such times, with dogs well entered to quail, very large bags might be secured by any one specially following them.